Shailene Woodley Suns Her Vagina, Plus 11 Other Weird and Awesome Facts About the Actress

Shailene Woodley is known as one of Hollywood's more out-there personalities. In addition to being recognized as one of the most exciting new leading ladies in the business, the Fault in Our Stars actress and former ELLE cover star has made headlines for her clay-eating habits and odd red-carpet footwear choices. Profiled alongside BFF Brie Larson by Lynn Hirschberg in the new issue of New York magazine, Woodley gets unapologetically weird. Here are 12 fun things we learned about the actress:

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She is the Jason Bourne of Hollywood: Hirschberg writes, "When she's not working, Woodley likes to disappear, and for a week it wasn't clear if she was coming to dinner or not. She doesn't have a permanent home or cell phone—preferring to couch-surf at her friends' houses."

She's really into the DIY health regime thing: "Woodley has seriously considered becoming an herbalist. When she's feeling ill, she makes tea out of pine needles (apparently a great source of vitamin C); she brushes her teeth with clay and whitens them by swishing sesame oil in her mouth for 20 minutes."

And the sun is her Monistat: "She staves off yeast infections by giving 'my vagina a little vitamin D' sunlight."

She did not wake up like this, ever:­ "Woodley, for instance, hates sleeping scenes in movies. 'It's so ridiculous the woman wakes up and she'll have makeup on! I don't even look like that after a photo shoot!'"

She is the postal service's number-one fan: Woodley tells Hirschberg, while nibbling on a tamari-seaweed rice cracker, "My favorite thing in the world is writing a letter and sending it snail maiI...I write letters every day."

She likes the taste of dirt: At one point she "poured a packet of instant chaga, a mushroom-based powder with strong ­antioxidant properties, into her mint iced tea." "It tastes like dirt," she tells Hirschberg, adding, "But I like the taste of dirt."

She'd rather be naked than dress to impress: "I was told to start dressing more 'cosmopolitan' for my 'campaign.' I remember saying, 'Are you telling me that if I dress a certain way, my chances are better for an Oscar? That makes me want to show up naked.'... "They said, 'Well—if you're naked, your chances will be very good.'"

She didn't consider herself famous before The Descendants: "I was a successful child actor, but I wasn't a famous child actor..I was never in a big movie. Thank God. When The Descendants came out, I felt pressure for the first time. I'd been acting since I was 5, but I'd never really done any photo shoots or interviews, and I certainly had never been asked over and over about my Oscar chances."

We shouldn't compare her to Jennifer Lawrence just because they both have vaginas: "As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine...How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others? I admire Jennifer Lawrence, but she's everyone's favorite person to compare me to. Is it because we both have short hair and a vagina? I see us as separate individuals. And that's important. As women, our insecurities are based on all these comparisons. And that creates distress."

She's Brie Larson's lobster lighthouse: "We understood each other instantly. We're the lighthouse for each other: the beam that stays focused and guides you home."

She won't be playing any more teenagers because she can no longer relate: "I saw Fault last night and it was nostalgic in a way. That will be the last teenage movie that I'm going to do. Last year, when I made Fault, I could still empathize with adolescence. But I'm not a young adult anymore—I'm a woman. But I've never played my age before and that's my next goal. It's scary."

She gives really weird hugs: "She has a particular style of hugging," Hirschberg writes. "With every stranger, she embraced the right side of the body and then the left, to give equal time, as she sees it, to both sides of the heart."